Visit the Coimbra Water Museum - Almedina (Coimbra)

The Coimbra Water Museum, located in the Parish of Almedina and occupying the former water treatment and lifting station, was inaugurated in March 2007, the current structure was designed by architects João Mendes Ribeiro, Alberto Lapa and Paolo Monzo to portray the history of public water supply. Also noteworthy is the use of the underground tunnel that currently leads to an esplanade by the river banks. This museum space is a place of celebration of ancient memories, inspired by the permanent dialogue between Coimbra and the Mondego River. The Museum's annual cultural program has a number of suggestions for activities and events, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, art installations, book presentation / release, music concerts, to thematic seminars and workshops.

Visit the Academic Museum of Coimbra - Almedina (Coimbra)

The Academic Museum of Coimbra is housed in the former St. Jerome College in the Parish of Almedina.
The Academic Museum was the first museum space dedicated to academic life. The museum began in 1987. It has a considerable collection of elements that are historical testimonies of academic experience throughout the ages. Several collections can be seen, linked to the Coimbra song (with instruments, scores, records) linked to sport (with exhibition of some of the trophies won by the Coimbra Academic Association); academic costumes, photographs, prints, sculptures, painting, ceramics and also a documentary archive, which make us know the history and academic life of the University.

Visit the Ethnographic Center of the Lousa (Castelo Branco)

The building of the Ethnographic Nucleus of Lousa consists of two floors: the lower floor dedicated to the theme of the technological cycle of olive oil and the upper floor dedicated to the Traditional Dances of the Slate.
The Center dedicated to "Dances da Lousa" guides us on a journey through the rich secular traditions of this Parish. In it we can find music, letters, dances recreated in photography and film, costumes, musical instruments, such as genebres, a type of xylophone, an archaic musical instrument used only in the slate.
Although the origin of the "Dances da Lousa" is unknown, every year the people of this parish, during the religious feast of Our Lady of the Heavens, on the 3rd Sunday of May, recreate this ancestral ritual in front of the Mother Church.
The "Dances of the Slate" are composed of three distinct dances: "Dance of the Maidens", "Dance of the Men" and "Dance of the Scissors".

Visit the Museum of Textiles - Cebolais de Cima

The Museum of Textiles, located in the Parish of Cebolais de Cima, is an equipment that aims to transmit to visitors knowledge about industrial and technical heritage of the textile sector.
The Museum of Textiles is constituted by a museum space where mechanisms have been preserved that contemplate the production phases related to carding and spinning. It also includes an experimental space, which houses an audiovisual room and mechanisms related to the weaving process. Between these two floors, we find a third intermediate space, called "memory space", which has the objective of presenting taxes to the workers and entrepreneurs responsible for the creation of this industry.
It also includes a manual weaving workshop and a business archive.
The Museum of Textiles offers visitors knowledge about the process of producing textiles. Here it is possible to understand the respective mechanisms in operation, from the carding process to weaving, the evolution of these techniques over time, as well as their territorial and historical framework. It brings together the necessary features to offer visitors an active, motivating and unique experience.

Visit the Episcopal Palace of Castelo Branco

The Episcopal Palace of Castelo Branco, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, today the Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum, is an example of residential, Renaissance, baroque and rococo religious architecture.
At the end of the 16th century, Bishop Nuno de Noronha, bishop of Guarda, ordered the construction of the Episcopal Palace of Castelo Branco. Through the lapidary and emblazoned engraving we can verify that the building work began in May 1596, concluding two years later. The building was intended for the temporary residence of the prelates, during the winter periods, since the climate of Castelo Branco was a little milder than that of Guarda. In 1771, with the creation of the diocese, the Palace of Castelo Branco became, then, permanent episcopal residence.
It was only in 1711 that the residence of Castelo Branco was the object of rebuilding, by D. João de Mendonça. At that time the garden was built, and a garden garden.
From the date of his inauguration, in 1782, the second bishop of Castelo Branco, D. Frei Vicente Ferrer da Rocha, soon realized works of improvement in the palace and some interventions in the gardens and the spatial organization of the forest. With the collaboration of the Dominican architect and friar Daniel da Sagrada Família, interventions were made in the body erected to the north that includes the staircase and the noble door, the balcony, the colonnade and the entrance hall, which gave the palace a greater capacity.
In 1786, there was a great increase to the purchase of ornamental pieces that populated the entire palace.
Antecede the palace a large walled courtyard, to where it is facing the main facade. This is two stories, all the upper floor features noble floors, by the use of bay windows topped by countercurved pediments, as opposed to the single, quadrangular windows of the ground floor.
The façade facing the garden is poorer, and still features elements of the old sixteenth-century building, where a loggia is evident. Also in the interior one can still see structures of the 16th century, now occupied by exhibition halls and already very impoverished, the old chapel with gilded carved ceiling with paintings, from the XVIII century, which represent the Litanies of the Virgin and other allegories to the Weapons of Chastity.
The constructive typology of the palace influenced many of the constructions of the time and later, having become a reference for the architecture of that zone.

Visit the Silk Museum - Castelo Branco

The Silk Museum, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, under the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of the Mentally Deficient Citizen (APPACDM) in Castelo Branco, was created to make known to the general public the History of Silk production in Portugal. Silkworm's life cycle, the conventional and state-of-the-art applications that can be made from the use of this poorly known and yet invaluable product.
The Museum is made up of five rooms. In room one, information about the silk is given, starting from the general until arriving at the particular one. The visit begins with the presentation of the Silk Route, the sericulture in our territory, even before the formation of nationality, sericulture in Beira Interior and finally, with a chronological analysis, the sericícola activity in APPACDM.
Room two - Audiovisual Room - is the space for the projection of a small film about the production of silk, with the collaboration of different partners. The remaining rooms are called: Bicho ao Fio; From Wire to Fabric and from Fabric to Final Product. In these spaces can be understood the process of producing the silk, to know some instruments used in the traditional method to obtain the silk and to appreciate some objects of silk.
In the Technical Room, younger visitors can carry out activities with the purpose of consolidating the knowledge and information presented during the visit, in an experience accompanied and supervised by specialized personnel.

Visit the Cargaleiro Museum - Castelo Branco

The Cargaleiro Museum, located in the parish of Castelo Branco, has as its main objective the dissemination, study and conservation of the pieces that make up the collection of the Art Collection of the Manuel Cargaleiro Foundation. A goal that is translated into the promotion and organization of temporary or temporary exhibitions of long duration.
Consisting of two contiguous buildings - Solar dos Cavaleiros, a mansion built in the 18th century. XVIII, and a contemporary building - Cargaleiro Museum is located in the heart of the historical area of ​​the city, in the vicinity of Praça de Camões, popularly known as Praça Velha. The Cargaleiro Museum complements its offer with a set of services, with emphasis on the Educational Service, Art Library / Documentary Center and Shop, as well as a small outdoor amphitheater, with the conditions to host the most diverse activities and shows.

Visit the Embroidery Interpretation Center - Castelo Branco

The Embroidery Interpretation Center, located in the parish of Castelo Branco, aims to contribute to the revaluation, recovery, innovation and re-launching of Castelo Branco Embroidery, a form of artistic expression unique.
The creation of the Interpretation Center resulted from the restoration of an iconographic building of Castelo Branco, Domus Municipalis, old House of the Village, old Chain and, more recently, Municipal Library.
Of recognized beauty and example of originality in the national scope, Embroidery of Castelo Branco presents two dominant characteristics: the artistic origin and the economic meaning. The first shows the existence of an art of its own, with a peculiar style, the second is the concentration of this embroidery industry in the District of Castelo Branco.
The Interpretation Center, in addition to museum space and shop, also hosts the Castelo Branco Embroidery School Workshop, which brings together some of the most suitable embroiderers, craftsmen of the genuine embroidery pieces of Castelo Branco.
The Interpretation Center offers the visitor a space that brings together ancient artifacts and the latest digital / technological supports, in a journey that takes the visitor through the origins of the Embroidery of Castelo Branco, from the sowing of the flax to the weaving, through the creation of the beast of the silk and extraction of the raw material, evolution of embroidery and technique (points), as well as the historical framework and symbology.

Visit the Center for Contemporary Culture of Castelo Branco

The Center of Contemporary Culture of Castelo Branco, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco and protected by the Municipal Council, promotes and disseminates contemporary culture, stimulates artistic creation.
The Center is housed in a building by the Catalan architect Josep Lluis Mateo, in collaboration with the Portuguese architect Carlos Reis de Figueiredo, and is located in Campo Mártires da Pátria (Devesa), the center of the city.
The Auditorium has 275 seats and is equipped with an acoustic system of superior quality, without the use of amplification systems, by the Catalan specialist Higini Arau.

Visit the Museu do Canteiro - Alcains

The Museu do Canteiro, located in the Parish of Alcains, is located in the Solar dos Goulões, later called Solar Ulisses Pardal.
The Museum has a permanent exhibition with the central theme of the stone, techniques and tools to work this material - namely granite - so linked to the socio-economic history of the Village and the County.
In addition to the permanent exhibition dedicated to the work of the flowerbed, the Museum also presents several temporary exhibitions (related to the theme of the stone) during the year.
The Museu do Canteiro is a municipal equipment.

Visit the Military Museum of Bragança - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Military Museum of Bragança, located in the parish of Santa Maria, occupies all floors of the Tower of Menagem of the castle of Bragança, with a total of 165 exhibition halls, arose in 1929 for the desire to preserve the memory of the military experiences of the city. Many of its pieces were donated by the inhabitants themselves and tell a story of the evolution of light weaponry between the twelfth and twentieth centuries.

Visit the Biscainhos Museum - Sé (Braga)

The Museum of the Biscainhos, located in the Parish of the Cathedral, is installed in a remarkable patrimonial set composed by property and garden.

The Museum of the Biscainhos has as a programmatic component the illustration of the experience in the Portuguese noble society, in the context of a seigniorial house of the XVII and XVIII centuries.

The building has interiors of great artistic interest, namely, compartments with parietal tile coverings from the 16th century. XVIII and ceilings with paintings and ornamental treatments.

It presents to the public a sequence of spaces that give a view of the occupations, tastes and traditions of our ancestors of the nobility of the XVII and XVIII centuries, being able to visit the Atrium, the Noble Hall, the Showrooms, Oratory, Music, the Dining Room, the Stables and the Old Kitchens. As an obligatory complement of the visit, the baroque gardens unfold in a show of artistic and environmental beauty, defining the formal garden and the old orchard and vegetable garden.

Visit the Ethnographic Museum of Palmeira (Braga)

The Ethnographic Museum of Palmeira has a series of objects of ethnographic character representative of the rural and agricultural past of the region. It is also constituted by a set of photographs that show a series of landscapes of the parish).

Also worthy of note in the museum are the representative figures of the ancient glory of cycling, the Peixoto Alves, who won the Tour of Portugal on a bicycle in 1965.

Also part of the museum collection are some dresses from the singular Pintado Dress Competition and some handicraft pieces from the former institution of the Work of the Mothers for National Education.

Visit the Monastery of Tibães - Mire de Tibães

The Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães, also known as Monastery of Tibães, is located in the parish of Mire de Tibães. The whole includes the Church of Tibães and the Cruise of Tibães.

The monastery was founded in the eleventh century and rebuilt a century later. In the 16th century, it became the motherhouse of the Order for Portugal and Brazil.

The main existing buildings were built in the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the extinction of the male religious orders occurred in 1834, it was sold by public auction, with the exception of the church, sacristy and cloister of the cemetery.

It remained in private hands until 1986, when it was acquired by the Portuguese State. Since then the process of recovery of the estate has begun.

The Monastery is classified as Property of Public Interest

Throughout its history, and given its importance, the monastery brought together the largest and most valuable estate in the region. In it they stood out from the painting, the sculpture and the sacred art, to a vast collection of books on varied subjects. After the sale of the property in 1834, most of the estate was lost.

The current museum preserves only a fragment of this collection, to which are added new pieces related to the history of the monastery and the Benedictine congregation. It is also possible to go through the "Museological Route", where you can appreciate the surrounding area of ​​the Monastery, its architecture, the ruins of previous buildings, the forest, the gardens, and various agricultural fields such as orchards, orchards and mills.

Visit Mamoa de Lamas (Braga)

The Mamoa de Lamas is a megalithic monument located in the parish of Lamas. The monument dating from the Neolithic period (approximately 3000 BC), has the average size of a mamoa. It covered a dolmen of which there remain only three lages conserved in the place, being the remaining ones in the surroundings of the mamoa.

The Lamas Mamoa is part of the Lamas Museum Nucleus.

Visiting the Dume - Dume Museum

The Dume Museum, located in the Parish of Dume, which has been operating since 2006, is a collection of archaeological sites that can be visited around the city of Braga.

The creation of this museological unit had as its objective the preservation, valorization and dissemination of the archaeological ruins there, with particular emphasis on the vestiges of the Basilica sueva of Dume, as well as the sarcophagus called Saint Martin. The visit will extend to the set of existing ruins under the current parish church and respective churchyard. In order to accommodate diversified audiences, an explanatory leaflet and a set of educational and didactic records of different levels of complexity are available, particularly for school groups.

Visit the Botanical Museum of Beja - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Botanical Museum of Beja, located in the parish of Santiago Maior (Beja), installed in the Beja Higher Agricultural School, is a center of scientific culture, having as main objectives the conservation, study and dissemination of objects and knowledge from collections and studies of economic and ethnobotanical botany. The Museum presents temporary exhibitions that illustrate the relationship between man and plants.

Visit the Pelourinho de Beja

Beja's pillory will have been re-erected after the concession of the New Foral by Manuel I of Portugal.

At the beginning of the 19th century, it was transferred to D. Manuel Square (today Praça da República), believed to have been previously placed in the courtyard of the Paços do Concelho, ending up being dismantled in the same century, at an unknown date. During this period some of its architectural elements disappeared, with the exception of the capital, the auction and part of the shaft.

It has been classified as a Property of Public Interest since October 11, 1933.

It came to be reconstructed in 1938 with the elements that were then collected in the Archaeological Museum of the new building of the City Hall, later transferred to the Museum Queen D. Leonor, and that were constituted by the capital, the shot and the grimpa with the sphere armillary and flag surmounted by the Cross of Christ.

It has a trunk-pyramidal torso decorated with discs, palmettes, rosettes and ring, and is topped by a capital also torso and topped by armillary sphere and the Cross of Christ in iron.

Visit the Misericórdia Church - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The Church of the Misericórdia de Beja, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), is an emblematic and beautiful example of the transition architecture between the Renaissance and the Mannerism in Portugal, full of understanding of the sources of tratadistics and forms learned from the Italian mannerist lesson.

The building is developed in longitudinal plant composed by the volumes of the galilee, the main chapel and the dependencies.

The facade is composed of the sumptuous effect of the galilee, loggia of rusticado device inspired "in the engraving of Serlio that reproduced the average floor of the amphitheater of Verona". The Mannerist arcades are deeply marked in their verticality, creating a set of ribs supported in Corinthian columns, of clear classic taste. In the wall, preceded by stairs, wall and railing, the portal of the temple opens, with pediment of classic lines very purified. The body of the church, installed in the space that originally corresponded to the third section of the loggia, lost part of the original decorative program, possibly due to the undue uses that the space had from the first half of the nineteenth century. From its primitive integrated patrimony there remain the pulpit and four tablets with scenes of the life of Christ belonging to the altarpiece, executed in 1564 by the eborense painter António Nogueira, who are in the Regional Museum of Beja.

Visit the Rainha Dona Leonor Museum

The Queen Dona Leonor Museum, located in the Municipality of Beja, also known as Beja Regional Museum in the Alentejo, is located in the dependence of the former Convent of the Conception.